Metallic tie for sacks



(No Model.)

G. W. DEANE. SEED PLANTBR ATTAGHMENT FOB. FLOWS.

No. 567,335. Patented Sept. 8, 1896.

Georg sit/K176011412 UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE W. DEANE, OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO NELIJE DEANE, OF SAME PLACE.

SEED-PLANTER ATTACH M ENT FOR PLOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,335, dated September 8, 1896. Application filed May 27, 1896. Serial No. 593,331. (No model.)

1 0 (NZ whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. DEANR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Riverside, in the county of Riverside and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-PlanterAttachments for Flows; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to attachments for plows; and the object is to provide a device of this kind for planting or distributing a fertilizer in the furrow at the same time the plowing is going on; and to this end the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same iigures of reference indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an ordinary plow with my improved seed-dropper and fortilizer attaclunent secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a see tion through the seed-hopper, and Fig. 4 is a modilication of the feed device.

1 represents the beam of an ordinanv plow, and to one side thereof near its rear end is removably secured the hopper 2 by bolts 3 I.) The hopper-bottom 2 is provided with a transverse feed-slot 5, andimmediatelybelow said slot is a circular recess 0, communicating with said slot, and in said circular reis located a rotating auger-shaped teedshat't 7, the end of which projects through the side of the hopper farthest from the plowbeam, while its opposite end also projects through the side ol' the hopper nearest the beam, and it is provided with a collar 8, and its extreme end has secured to it a sprocketwheel 9, and between said collar and sprocketwheel is mounted one end of a pivoted bar 10, so that said shaft 7 revolves freely in it. The other end of said bar 10 is provided with a counter-shaft 12, on which rotates freely a wheel 13, formed with radial spurs 14, and a Sprocket-wheel 15, around which passes a sprocket-chain 16, which rotates the sprocketwheel ll and feed-shaft 7.

17 is a bracket secured to the side of the beam between the two sprocket-wheels, and it forms a guide for the vertical motion of the pitman to compensate for the vertical movement of the wheel in traveling over the ground.

18 is a hand-lever pivoted to the side of the beam, and it is provided with an areshaped rack 18', by which it can be locked in any position. lhis lever 18 is provided with a chain or connecting-rod 1S connecting it with the pitman 10, so as to raise and lower the wheel, when desired, in going from one part of the field to another or from the field to the barn and vice versa.

1) is a slide in the bottom of the hopper, and it is provided with a slot 20, in which is a set-screw 2], by means of which it can be adjusted to regulate the length of the feedslot 5.

22 is a strip of cloth, rubber, or any suitable flexible material secured to one side of the feed slot 5, its free end extending downwardly in contact with the periphery of the fccdshaft to wipe oil. the surplus seed or ferilizer from the spiral grooves in the feedshaft after they have become filled, and thereby insure a continuous, regular, and uniform supply of the same.

A similar slide 23 moves in the bottom of the hopper to cover or regulate thesize of the slot 24, and this slot may be entirely closed and the seed discharged by the feed-shaft T at the end of the recess, or it may be only par tially closed, so as to divide the distribution of the seed or fertilizer between the opening in the slotBl and the end oi? the recess, at will.

In the modification I have shown straight grooves in the feed-shaft instead of the spiral ones first described.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

IIaving thus fully described my invention,

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what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1. The combination with u plow-beam, earrying a hopper having upper and lower aili ned feed-slots and a transverse orifice between them, of the spirally-fluted feed-shaft, rotating in said orifice and provided with av collar 8, sprocket-wheel fl, and pivoted bar 10,1121V- ing counter-shaft 1B, Walking-wheel 13 journaled thereon, carrying sprocket-Wheel 15, and the sprocket-chain 11), substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A plow-beam carrying 2t hopper formed v with a circular recess, slots 5 and 2t, adjustable slides 10 and 223, and flexible strips 22, in combination with the fluted feed-shaft 7, rotating in said recess, and providedwith the collar 8, sprocket-wheel Q, and the pivoted bar 10 carrying a walking-wheel 13, sprocketwheel 15, and sprocket-chain Illi, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto a flix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

(QIEORGE W. DEANE. \Vitnesses:

(i. A. CALDWELL, ioenn'r DUNCAN. 

